Trump։ "The Pentagon will be renamed the Department of War"

US President Donald Trump says he is considering changing the name of the Department of Defense back to its former title, the Department of War.

He made the remarks at the start of summit talks with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Monday.

Trump noted that the Department of Defense was called the Department of War when the United States won World War One and World War Two.

The president said, "to me, that's really what it is," stressing that "defense is a part of that."

He added: "I'm talking to the people. Everybody likes that."

Trump went on, "it's something that I think you're going to be hearing about or seeing about over the next couple of weeks."

A US media outlet says that any name change for the Pentagon would likely need approval by Congress.